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Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The 7 year old who tried to kill his mom.
I’ll admit, because we do not watch much television I had no idea this show was on until I read about it on the internet. And my first thought when I saw that the show was coming on was, What happened to HIPPA and Children’s Right [...]

Filed in General Bipolar | Also tagged ADHD, anxiety, Auditory Hallucinations, autism spectrum, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, brit on oprah, child psychiatry, emotional regulation, hearing voices, Mania, manic depression, medication, mental health, mental health treatment, oprah winfrey show, parenting, pediatric bipolar, pediatric mental illness, psychiatric hospital, psychiatry, psychosis, sensory integration disorder, teen bipolar, therapeutic schools, tourette's syndrome, visualization | Comments (6)

Absence Note To School

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dear Mismanaged and Underfunded Public Middle School,
Please excuse Rye’s absence from school yesterday. Due to the fact that you insist on mainstreaming bipolar children and refuse to acknowledge children with emotional disabilities as being worthy of any significant amount of additional assistance in the public school setting, Rye is now completely stressed by your school [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Special Education | Also tagged anxiety, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, bipolar teen, FAPE, Free Appropriate Public Education, hallucinations, iep, invisible disabilities, lack of funding for special eduation, lack of resource classes, lack of resource help, Learning Disabilities, mental health, mental health law, middle school, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, public school, Special Education, teen bipolar, waiting for superman | Comments (3)

The Fragility Of Reality

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The perception of reality is something that people without mental illness take for granted. Myself included. For Rye however, in times of unbalance, it can be a precarious perception. For days now, maybe weeks even, he has been agitated and in and out of reality. Yesterday, in response to a period of intense aggravation, his doctors started [...]

Filed in Auditory Hallucinations, General Bipolar, Meds | Also tagged delusions, hallucinations, seroquel | Comments (7)

Psychiatric Medications And Children

Monday, April 19, 2010

Some thoughts on psychiatric medications and children:
I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately of recent accounts of children dying from taking pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs. In one case the child’s body system shut down due to overdose, in another the child had a heart attack, and in another the child hung himself.
And all I can [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, seizures | Also tagged Adderall, ADHD, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, lithium, Mania, mental health, mood stabilizers, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, seizures | Comments (77)

Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?

Friday, February 19, 2010

I ask myself this question often with regard to Rye. Is he really bipolar or is he just highly sensitive? Granted, he has had periods of mania and psychosis which by textbook definition make him bipolar. However, every time he has had true mania or psychosis it has been initially induced by psychiatric medications. Specifically [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, depression, emotional regulation, high sensitivity, Mania, mental health, parenting, pediatric bipolar, psychosis, rages, stimulants, suicidal thoughts, violence | Comments (2)

Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The whole subject of psychiatry and child psychiatry in particular has been heavily weighing on me lately.
I mean, do these doctors know what they are doing? I know they try but so many symptoms in children and even teens can be misread, misunderstood, misdiagnosed and overpathologized. Much more so than with adults. I know every [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged Abilify, benadryl, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, mental health, mental health treatment, pediatric bipolar, psychiatry, psychosis, risperdal, seroquel | Comments (5)

Far Away Eyes

Friday, January 29, 2010

Well, I guess I should have seen it coming but Rye fell apart yesterday morning after coming home sick from school with a bad cold. Mania revisit. Without going into all of the details, it was not good.
Once you’ve seen the far away eyes of mania, you never forget it. It’s haunting.
Despite my saying previously [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Mania, Meds | Also tagged Abilify, bipolar child, lithium, Mania, pediatric bipolar, psychosis | Comments (9)

Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children’s Struggle To Communicate

Friday, January 22, 2010

A few nights ago Don, Rye and I were watching American Idol. An ad came on for Abilify. A few seconds into the ad Rye looks at us and says, “What is that medicine they are advertising?”
“Abilify,” I say “that’s the medicine you took to stop hearing things after the Adderall reaction.”
“Oh,” Rye says. “That’s [...]

Filed in Abilify, Adderall, Auditory Hallucinations, General Bipolar, Meds | Also tagged Abilify, Adderall, bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, child psychiatry, hallucinations, Mania, medication, pediatric bipolar, psychosis | Comments (7)

Home Again, Home Again

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

As of today, we are back from our trip to NY. I’m really tired but we had a great time overall and Rye did really well. Shockingly well, to be honest, because we had an incredibly l.o.n.g “planes, trains & automobiles-esque” travel time to get there due to some bad weather and this was hard [...]

Filed in Abilify, Auditory Hallucinations, General Bipolar | Also tagged Abilify, Auditory Hallucinations, bipolar, bipolar child, pediatric bipolar | Comments (3)

This Week In Review

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Well, wow, a lot has happened this week.
First, I got my test scores back from the standardized test I took for the teaching/grad school program to which I recently applied. I studied relatively hard for the test as I was worried about passing and ended up scoring in the top 15% of all test takers [...]

Filed in Abilify, General Bipolar, Mania, Meds | Also tagged Abilify, bipolar child, bipolar medication, Mania, pediatric bipolar | Comments (1)

Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?

Monday, December 14, 2009

Well darn, I was trying not to post on this because I know the blogosphere has been all buzzed up with this article the past week but it’s hard to let it go, you know?
In case you have not seen it already, the article in question is from the New York Times on December 11, [...]

Filed in General Bipolar, Meds, psychiatry | Also tagged bipolar, bipolar child, bipolar medication, cabf, child psychiatry, medication, mental health, mental health treatment, mood stabilizers, pediatric bipolar, psychiatry | Comments (3)

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Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

Absence Note To School

The Fragility Of Reality

Psychiatric Medications And Children

Bipolar Child Or Highly Sensitive Child?

Child Psychiatry: A Real Science?

Far Away Eyes

Abilify, Thoughts of Suicide, Children’s Struggle To Communicate

Home Again, Home Again

This Week In Review

Medicaid Kids On More Antipsychotics: Better Treatment?

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